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Real Name: Danielle “Dani” Moonstar
Occupation: Student, adventurer
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: U.S. citizen
Place of Birth: Boulder, Colorado
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Black Eagle (grandfather, deceased), William and Peg (parents)
Base of Operations: X-Factor's ship
Past Group Affiliations: New Mutants
Known Powers:
Solid Images: Dani is able to project solid images of a person’s greatest fear or desire, including her own. This ability is Unearthly and does not seem to have a limit on what it can produce, except that none of the solid images’ abilities or powers can be above Unearthly. She has no control over the images she draws from a person’s mind, the images will act as their nature dictates. The solid image will only disappear if she creates another solid image, meaning she must always have some sort of solid image created from her mind. She usually keeps a smaller solid image of her spirit lance on hand, worn around her neck. If surprised, she is allowed a red Psyche FEAT roll to create something to protect her from the surprise attack. This power can even change another person’s appearance and shape.
Telepathy: This Monstrous ability is limited to contact with animal minds or shapechangers who are currently in their animal forms.
Death Sense: Mirage has the Unearthly ability to detect the aura of imminent death. Judges should secretly roll once before the game to determine if a “deathglow” was seen. If the first roll comes up positive, a victim should be chosen at random from the characters in the game. The selected victim is unable to spend Karma on Endurance FEATs during that game.
Ghost Staff: This magical weapon is created directly from Danielle’s mind and does Shift-Y damage to god-like beings. It is capable of penetrating even Death’s defenses.
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Winged Flight: Brightwind can attain Excellent air speed (150 mph)
with its powerful wings.
Mind Link: (Un) Brightwind is psionically connected to Mirage and
will answer her summons if they are in the same dimension.
Talents:
Dani is a trained hunter, survivalist, and an expert in horse riding and care. She also receives a +1 CS when firing a bow and she now has the Leadership and Resist Domination talents. Dani speaks fluent English and Cheyenne.
Contacts:
Danielle is able to call upon the New Mutants, X-Men, X Factor, Excalibur, and the X-Terminators.
Role-Playing Notes:
Dani is a strong-willed young woman who is very proud of her Cheyenne heritage. She is extremely loyal to her family, and her friends. She is willing to face Death itself in order to save a friend. Dani takes her leader ship of the New Mutants very seriously, especially since the death of Doug Ramsey.
History:
Danielle Moonstar is an American Indian of the Cheyenne tribe. Her powers surfaced when she reached puberty, but she had no control over them. She scared everyone in the community except her parents and her grandfather, Black Eagle. Dani’s parents disappeared while on a camping trip in the mountains. Before they had left, Dani had accidentally projected images of them being killed by a demonic bear. She was haunted by dreams of the bear, which she knew had killed her parents. The bear tried to kill Dani, but she was protected by her grandfather’s shaman spells.
After her parents disappeared, she lived for a time with some friends of the family, the Roberts. She accidentally used her psychic powers and scared them. She went to the mountains and lived there for several years with her grandfather. Black Eagle contacted Professor Charles Xavier, who had been a friend of Dani’s father in the army.
When Black Eagle first asked her to go with Xavier, she angrily refused, believing all white men to be her enemy. While angry, she accidentally created a image of Black Eagle’s death that she had seen in a dream. She then agreed to go with Xavier to learn how to control her powers.
Before Xavier arrived, Black Eagle was killed by agents of Donald Pierce. Pierce was a member of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club, who was trying to oust Sebastian Shaw from control of the Club. Pierce hated mutants and planned to kill Xavier and any other mutants he could locate. Dani was almost killed by Pierce’s agents too, but she was saved by the mutant Karma and Xavier. Xavier told her about Pierce and she agreed to work with him to get revenge.
After Dani and several other young mutants defeated Pierce, she agreed to go with Xavier and learn how to use her power. She soon came to care for all her fellow New Mutants, no matter what their race. She and Rahne Sinclair became very close, mostly due to their psychic link when Rahne shifted into wolf form. Dani soon learned how to control her powers, and how to create images other than a person’s greatest fear. She and Cannonball became the team co leaders. At first Dani called herself Psyche, but she later changed her codename to Mirage.
Later, while Dani and the other New Mutants were prisoners in Asgard, Dani found out that she had the Death Sense that the Valkyries possess. Dani mentally bonded with one of the Valkyrie’s winged horses, whom she named Brightwind. When Dani and the New Mutants returned to Earth, Brightwind accompanied her.
Recently, one of the New Mutants, Amara (Magma), was captured by agents of the High Evolutionary, who planned to take her powers away permanently. The New mutants rescued Amara before her powers taken away. During the battle, the High Evolutionary’s agent, Stack, threw Dani on the machine that was able to take away a mutant’s power.
Glowworm and Bulk, two disfigured mutants from New York City, were dying nearby. The machine had already taken away their powers, and they were dying from the radiation poisoning that had given them their powers in the first place. Dani had seen the Death Glow around them and had tried to help them. The Bulk’s last dying effort was to push up on a lever on the machine that was taking away Dani’s powers. The Bulk’s efforts caused the effects of the machine to reverse, actually increasing Dani’s powers.
After being freed from the machine by her friends, she discovered that her images were now solid and that she had no real control over them after she created them. With Dani’s new power, the New Mutants were able to easily defeat the High Evolutionary’s agents and escape with Amara.
Dani and the New Mutants then became involved with the alien slave merchant, Spyder. They escaped from her and got back to Earth. Dani and her friends then became involved in the Inferno occurring in New York City. There they worked with Power Pack, Cloak and Dagger, and the X-Terminators while fighting the disasters and demons caused by the Inferno.
After Inferno was over, Dani and her friends went back to Xavier’s mansion. There they found Magneto and the other Hellfire Club members. The mansion had been destroyed in a battle between the X-Men/X-Factor and Mister Sinister. Magneto finally revealed his true motives. He had been trying to gain control of various mutant groups, so he could create a consolidated power base. As usual, Magneto planned to take over the world for mutants. The New Mutants witnessed a power struggle between Magneto and Sebastian Shaw. Magneto won, and asked the New Mutants to join him. They refused, and Magneto allowed them to leave.
Mirage and the other New Mutants have accepted an offer to stay with X-Factor and be trained by them, aboard X-Factor’s ship.